Eskimo Items and Alaskan Map Exhibit at Shafter Library
An exhibit curated by Miss Hazel Johnson features Eskimo artifacts and an 1899 San Francisco published Alaskan gold rush map. The display includes an itemized prospectors’ gear list, a gold scale, carved hooks, ivory pieces, a carved knife from the Narge wreck, and related Alaska literature. Johnson, a Richland faculty member, taught in Alaska at Douglas and Nome.
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Hazel Josephine Johnson
Shafter Library
Nome
San Francisco
Johnson
Smithsonian Institute
California Leads Nation In Dairy Cows Under Test
California remains first in dairy cows under test with 107,025 cows in herd improvement programs, a U.S. Department of Agriculture report shows. The state holds 14 percent of all cows on test, up 17,000 from last year, and 15.3 percent of California dairies are enrolled, the highest percentage of any state.
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California
Bureau of Dairy Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
United States
G. E. Gordon
University of California Agricultural Extension Service
California O
Shafter High Plans June Baccalaureate Services
Plans for Shafter high baccalaureate services are being made at the school. The executive board will offer several suggestions for senior class members to consider.
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Shafter High
Noted Mammalogist Visits Shafter With Friends Sunday
Noted mammalogist and Archibald expedition member Richardson recently returned from Dutch New Guinea visited the F fy Latta home in Shafter with friends. He spent time with two Hancock expeditions along the Mexican coast and interior, accompanied by his wife and his parents, Mr and Mrs Walter L Richardson of Porterville. He had been a Porterville High School student when Latta taught there years ago.
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Archibald
United States
Dutch New Guinea
Gideon Bibles Dedicated in Bakersfield Hotels
Gideon Bibles for rooms in three Bakersfield hotels were dedicated on March 16. Sam L. Becker Abe F. Isaac and John Suderman attended the Bakersfield Gideon camp meeting to plan the dedication. The Bakersfield camp president John Thomas of Wasco presided at Norman Entwistle home. A demand for Bibles for Kern county institutions was stated. Regular meetings will be on the second Tuesday. next is in Shafter.
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Gideon
Bakersfield
Sam L.becker
Abe F. Isaac
John Suderman
Gideon Camp
Norman Entwistle
John Thomas
Wasco
Kern County
Shafter
Students Attend Valley Conference in California
Letha Bartel and Charolette Leedom plan to attend a valley conference of the California Scholarship federation to be held Saturday at Turlock.
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Letha Bartel
Charolette Leedom
The
California Scholarship Federation
Turlock
West's Eulogy to Old Drum Recalls Fort Ord Dog Case
The piece links the Fort Ord burial of Laddie to the Old Drum case from Warrensburg Missouri. It recounts how a dog’s loyalty stirred a landmark 1870 jury verdict where Charlie Burden sued Lon Hornsby over Drum’s death, ending with a $500 award and a famous eulogy praising dogs as unfailing friends.
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Laddie
Kansas
Fort Ord
Monterey
America
Old Drum
Missouri
George G. West
United States
Corwin Radcliff
Merced Sun-Star
Kansas City
Warrensburg
Drum
Charlie Burden
Lon Hornsby
Burden
Big Creek
Hornsby
Burdett
Ferguson
Phillips and West
Crittenden and Cockrell
Tose
West
Cockrell
Critenden Poe
Common Pleas Court
Ead
Gal
Rightmire to Delano Court
Judge H. A. Rightmire of Shafter presided in Judge Elmer Lobre's Justice Court at Delano Monday this week to hear a small claims case.
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H. A. Rightmire
Shafter
Elmer Lobre
Delano
Boy Scouts Aid Crowd Control at Flower Field Event
Shafter Boy Scouts from Troops 41 and 44 assisted police officers with parking and traffic directing during the Wildflower fete last week. Donald Annis Leroy Henderson George Habitt Hershall Rodgers from Troop 41 and Lloyd John Stalcup Oliver Avants from Troop 44 led the effort. the work was hard and hot, yet they persisted until most cars were parked.
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Shafter Boy Scouts
Wildflower
Donald Annis
Leroy Henderson
George Habitt
Hershall Rodgers
Lloyd
John Stalcup
Oliver Avants
Boy Scouts of America
Chorus Sings At Churches In Southern California
Members of the Male Chorus of the Mennonite Brethren church gave three programs in southern California last Sunday singing at the Los Angeles Mennonite Brethren church in the afternoon and at the Van Nuys Missionary church in the evening. The chorus drawn from Shafter church is gaining a state wide reputation after recent full program concerts in several community churches.
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Mennonite Brethren Church
California
Los Angeles
Menonite Brethren Church
van Nuys
Shafter Church
Open United States Civil Service Jobs Listed This Week
Civil service vacancies include boat construction inspectors steamfitter expeditor head sail scientist and engineering draftsman bookbinder hand and machine. Full information may be obtained from the federal employment office.
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United States Civil Service
Secretary Roskam Extract Highlights Civil Service
Fragment discusses statements by John Roskam, secretary of the U S Civil Service, focusing on reforms and organizational governance. It notes policy direction and administrative oversight without graphic detail.
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John Roskam
U. S. Civil Service
Sha ter Postoffice Board of Examiners Noted
A brief item reports the board of examiners at the Sha ter postoffice with no further details.
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Shater
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the Press
Matty Veronica O'Reilly
Chicago
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John G. Winant
Great Britain
Benjamin Cohen
Ad Roosevelt
New York
Whistler
Ft. Ord
Rightmire
Delano Court
J. C. Penner Notary Public
Shafter County
Sunset Ave
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E. B. Stringham Drug
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Vorpeater Pacific Igas and Electric, Company
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